Organophosphates, a very strong pesticide was generously used to delouse Iraqi POWs treated at our hospital and it was liberally sprayed on tents to keep the pests, sand fleas and other creepy crawlies out.

I had to provide my own car for the job but I remember how often I had to disinfest it myself because of service-users I had to ferry to a safe place; the number of times I had to take people to a health centre to be deloused and provide them with fresh clothing when their own had to be burnt; the number of times I had to delouse, de-flea myself and treat myself for scabies.

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